Author: Rick Mc

Apparatus FINALS have been posted.

Vault CHAMPION – Naomi DeLara
Bars CHAMPION – Lissette LaFex
Beam CHAMPION – Naomi DeLara
Floor CHAMPION – Jessica Bolduc

full results

official meet home page

CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE THERE.

The Canadian men won at Kyle Shewfelt yesterday.

And today the Canadian women defeat the Olympic Champion nation. Wow.

Senior Team Results:
1. Canada #1
2. China
3. Oakville

AA Results:
Shang Chunsong (China) 55.550
Jessica Savona (Canada – Senior) 54.450
Sabrina Gill (Canada – Senior) 53.750

I’m getting those scores from the Chinese Gymnastics Blog. But here’s the official results page. There seems to be a bit of confusion.

Reports are that China had something like 10 FALLS. Everyone is raving about Shang Chunsong, though.

Click PLAY or watch her Beam (from another meet) on YouTube. (2min 50sec)

Apparatus FINALS go Sunday. Thanks Katrina.

Photographic evidence. CONGRATS to the host teams.

1. Canada Red
2. Canada White
3. USA
4. China (one man short of a full team due to injury)

more photos

Details and results on the official website.

Is trampoline a good activity for participants with special needs?

Find out on a new site out of the U.K. dedicated to the topic. It already has a surprisingly number of links.

Rebound Therapy® is the phrase used to describe the practice of using a trampoline to provide therapeutic exercise and recreation for people with a wide range of Special Needs. …

• Special Needs Trampolining classes (£4.50 drop-in)

… a resource for people across the world involved in trampolining and specifically encourage those involved with special needs participants. You might be a special needs teacher, a physiotherapist, a mainstream trampolining coach …

visit the home page – Special Needs Trampolining

(via Rec Gymnastics)

This pogo stick is a Flybar.

Click PLAY or watch Fred Grzybowski on YouTube.

Watch him jump over a 7ft, 6in pole.

UW-La Crosse are 2011 NCGA Champions.

CONGRATS.

… University of Wisconsin-La Crosse won its fourth consecutive National Collegiate Gymnastics Association title, while La Crosse’s Christa Booman took home the All-Around championship at the 2011 NCGA Team Championships on Friday evening at the McPhee Physical Education Center at UW-Eau Claire. …

official meet home page

full team results

(via USAG)

All around – international MAG:

1. 87.40 Liu Rongbing (China)
2. 86.45 Tyler Mizoguchi (USA)
3. 86.10 Casey Sandy (CAN)

USAG Score Sheet Jr Sr & International – All Around full results (PDF)

Oh Canada, what a result for the hosts:

Team:

1. Canada Red
2. Canada White
3. USA
4. China (one man short of a full team due to injury)

USAG Score Sheet Jr Sr & International Full Team results (PDF)

Jenn Isbister:

Canada “Red” and Canada “White” surprised at the inaugural Kyle Shewfelt Gymnastics Festival (KSGF), …

Competition tonight used the 4-3-3 format (four members to a team, three athletes up per apparatus, all three scores counting).

Canada “Red” claimed the top team score, and consisted of Olympic veterans Nathan Gafuik and Brandon O’Neill, recent men’s Elite Canada runner-up and 2007 Worlds team member and former NCAA Champion Casey Sandy, and relative newcomer Jason Scott.

One of Canada’s top all-arounders, Gafuik competed only 5 events tonight, skipping floor. Fellow Beijing Olympian O’Neill provided a spectacular return to competition tonight, scoring over 15 on the three events he competed. He also posted the top score of the night on his specialty, floor exercise (16.250).

read more on Gymn.ca

Jennifer Borton has been posting photos

The U.S. Air Force Academy and Arizona State University successfully defended their Varsity and Collegiate Club Division titles …

2011 USA Gymnastics Men’s Collegiate Championships
Springfield (Mass.) College
March 25, 2011

Varsity
Team
1. U.S. Air Force Academy, 345.700
2. College of William and Mary, 344.600
3. Springfield College, 335.100 ??
4. U.S. Military Academy, 344.500
5. U.S. Naval Academy, 332.600

All-around
1. Ty Evans, Springfield College, 85.700
2. Coltun Wulf, U.S. Air Force Academy, 85.600
3. Andrew Faulk, U.S. Naval Academy, 84.900

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Collegiate Club Team
1. Arizona State University, 329.800
2. University of Washington, 305.300
3. College of Brockport, 294.600

All-around
1. Lee Wilkerson, Arizona State University, 82.700
2. Brett Lazarus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 82.000
3. Charles Baysinger, Arizona State University, 80.500

via email from Leslie King, USAG

competition home page

Are you (like me) still trying to understand what this competition is all about?

At the men’s USA Gymnastics Collegiate Championships, the team and all-around competition are divided into two categories, varsity and collegiate. The varsity competition is for Division II and III schools with gymnastics as a varsity sport and the military academies, and the collegiate team category is for two-year or four-year degree-granting schools with gymnastics as a club sport. The individual event finals combine the two divisions into one.

Here’s more background on this important event – Springfield College plays host to 2011 USA Gymnastics Men’s Collegiate Championships
03/24/2011

Klara Kesmarky Miller announced the new website.

May 21-26th, 2012

Regina will welcome over 1100 gymnasts, coaches and officials to the 2012 Canadian Gymnastics Championships where four disciplines will hold their championships together. We are looking forward to hosting Canada for this celebration of gymnastics! …

Gymnastics2012.ca

Saskatchewan does a terrific job of hosting major meets.

PEI is hosting this year, 2011.

Full Twist:

The WAG help desk document has been updated for March 2011. The new clarifications and updates of this document have been added in green boxes. …

This is an improvement. But why keep the word “close”?

The 0.1 should be for landing on the line with one foot.

There’s more on the Full Twist post including links to the landings of Nabieva, Mustafina and Sacramone at Worlds 2010 – Attention all Judges!